Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "irish-gangster"

1. Goodfellas (1990)

R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco

Votes: 1,258,611 | Gross: $46.84M

2. The Departed (2006)

R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg

Votes: 1,423,514 | Gross: $132.38M

3. The Irishman (2019)

R | 209 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An illustration of Frank Sheeran's life, from W.W.II veteran to hit-man for the Bufalino crime family and his alleged assassination of his close friend Jimmy Hoffa.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel

Votes: 431,540 | Gross: $7.00M

4. The Outfit (2022)

R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An expert cutter must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.

Director: Graham Moore | Stars: Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, John Gumley-Mason, Stephen Knox

Votes: 69,730

5. The Town (2010)

R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A proficient group of thieves rob a bank and hold an assistant manager hostage. Things begin to get complicated when one of the crew members falls in love with her.

Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner

Votes: 416,057 | Gross: $92.19M

6. Gangs of London (2020– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Tells the story of London being torn apart by the turbulent power struggles of its international gangs and the sudden power vacuum that's created when the head of London's most powerful crime family is assassinated.

Stars: Joe Cole, Sope Dirisu, Michelle Fairley, Lucian Msamati

Votes: 40,289

7. Sleepers (1996)

R | 147 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard gives them a chance for revenge.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Jason Patric

Votes: 237,701 | Gross: $49.10M

8. A History of Violence (2005)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt

Votes: 253,007 | Gross: $31.49M

9. The Boondock Saints (1999)

R | 108 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Two Irish Catholic brothers become vigilantes and wipe out Boston's criminal underworld in the name of God.

Director: Troy Duffy | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco

Votes: 250,821 | Gross: $0.03M

10. Black Mass (2015)

R | 123 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Joel Edgerton

Votes: 192,480 | Gross: $62.58M

11. Kill the Irishman (2011)

R | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.

Director: Jonathan Hensleigh | Stars: Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer

Votes: 51,385 | Gross: $1.19M

12. The Devil's Own (1997)

R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A police officer uncovers the real identity of his house-guest, an I.R.A. terrorist in hiding.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades

Votes: 71,695 | Gross: $42.87M

13. Grand Theft Auto IV (2008 Video Game)

M | Action, Crime, Drama

Niko Bellic comes to Liberty City, America to live the good life, but ends up having to assist his dangerously indebted cousin Roman with his financial troubles, by any (mostly illegal) means necessary.

Stars: Michael Hollick, Jason Zumwalt, Timothy Adams, Moti Margolin

Votes: 38,000

14. State of Grace (1990)

R | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Boston cop is recruited to return to his hometown and infiltrate the mob ran by his best friend's brother.

Director: Phil Joanou | Stars: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright

Votes: 24,806 | Gross: $1.91M

15. The Kitchen (2019)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison.

Director: Andrea Berloff | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson

Votes: 22,987 | Gross: $12.05M

16. Brotherhood (2006–2008)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama

Set in an Irish neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, the series revolves around two brothers on opposite sides of the law: one a gangster (Jason Isaacs) and the other a state politician (Jason Clarke).

Stars: Jason Isaacs, Jason Clarke, Annabeth Gish, Kevin Chapman

Votes: 8,108

17. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan

Votes: 23,216

18. Bad Blood (2017–2018)

TV-MA | 47 min | Crime, Drama

A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.

Stars: Kim Coates, Louis Ferreira, Sharon Taylor, Melanie Scrofano

Votes: 10,444

19. The Black Donnellys (2007)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama

Four young Irish brothers are caught up in New York's underworld of organized crime.

Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Tom Guiry, Olivia Wilde, Billy Lush

Votes: 14,377

20. Mafia III (2016 Video Game)

M | Action, Crime, Drama

After the murder of his surrogate family at the hands of the Italian mafia, Vietnam War veteran Lincoln Clay seeks vengeance on those who took away the only thing that mattered to him.

Stars: Alex Hernandez, Lane Compton, Gordon Greene, Rick Pasqualone

Votes: 4,890

21. Cardboard Gangsters (2017)

92 min | Crime, Drama

A group of young Cardboard Gangsters attempt to gain control of the drug trade in Darndale, chasing the glorified lifestyle of money, power and sex.

Director: Mark O'Connor | Stars: John Connors, Fionn Ó Loingsigh, Kierston Wareing, Jimmy Smallhorne

Votes: 3,301

22. Mafia Inc (2019)

143 min | Crime, Drama

The Gamache, tailors from father to son, have been dressing the Mafia family Paternò for three generation. Vince works on behalf of Frank the godfather with his eldest son Giaco. Vince seeks to earn his stripes by impressing the godfather.

Director: Daniel Grou | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Marc-André Grondin, Gilbert Sicotte, Mylène Mackay

Votes: 1,643

23. Gangster Land (2017)

Not Rated | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A very high level and brief history of how "Machine Gun Jack McGurn" rose from amateur boxer to second in command of Al Capone's criminal empire.

Director: Timothy Woodward Jr. | Stars: Sean Faris, Milo Gibson, Joe_Machado, Jason Patric

Votes: 1,717

24. The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)

Not Rated | 101 min | Biography, Crime, History

Neo-noir about a small-time New York City criminal whose ambition is to become a big-time crime boss during the Prohibition era.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart, Jesse White

Votes: 1,342

25. Mafia II: Definitive Edition (2020 Video Game)

M | Action, Crime, Drama

Part two of the crime drama saga. Following the rise of Vito Scaletta, son of Italian immigrants who moves to Empire Bay in America. Growing up and getting into a life of crime he befriends... See full summary »

Votes: 483

26. The Irish Mob (2008–2016)

45 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

A look at how Irish gangsters changed the face of organized crime in the US.

Stars: Steve Wall, T.J. English, Alastair Mac Aindreasa, Roswell Stanley

Votes: 67

27. Ash Wednesday (2002)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama

Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers (Burns and Wood) who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.

Director: Edward Burns | Stars: Brian Burns, Vincent Rubino, James Michael Cummings, Elijah Wood

Votes: 3,158 | Gross: $0.00M

28. Kings of Coke (2022)

83 min | Documentary, Crime, History

A ragtag gang of Irish bank robbers from Montreal rose to become one of North America's most feared criminal organizations.

Director: Julian Sher | Stars: Dan Burke, David McGee, Kathy Dobson, D'Arcy O'Connor

Votes: 163

29. Madso's War (2010 TV Movie)

R | 86 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A power vacuum develops when the top mob boss flees a federal indictment.

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Matthew Marsden, Kelly Overton, Kevin Chapman, David Patrick Kelly

Votes: 270

30. Between the Canals (2011)

74 min | Crime, Drama

Follows three small time criminals from Dublin's North Inner City as they each aspire to be somebody in a fast changing society.

Director: Mark O'Connor | Stars: Dan Hyland, Peter Coonan, Stephen Jones, Anne Marie Martin

Votes: 283

31. King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of flamboyant Prohibition-era gangster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Diana Dors

Votes: 297

32. The Front Line (2006)

93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An African immigrant bank security guard turns the tables on Dublin's nastiest criminals when they force him to be the "inside man" on a bank robbery

Director: David Gleeson | Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Gerard McSorley, James Frain, Fatou N'Diaye

Votes: 1,003

33. Beantown (2007)

95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A blood-soaked chronicle of the final desperate gang war between Boston's Irish and Italian mobs.

Director: Timothy Norman | Stars: Kristen Savage, Randy Paradis, Sean Fowler, Drew Paradis

Votes: 88

34. Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013– )

TV-14 | Documentary, Action, Crime

Violence and corruption pulsed through the soul of the Gangster Empire during the heyday of Prohibition and the Atlantic City Boardwalk.

Stars: Coby Batty, Matt K. Baker, Todd Barsness, James Christopher Cooke

Votes: 31

35. Secrets of an Undercover Wife (2007 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A wife goes undercover to gain information from the mob to free her husband from jail who has been convicted for embezzlement and murder.

Director: George Mendeluk | Stars: Shawnee Smith, Michael Woods, Gordon Michael Woolvett, Lori Triolo

Votes: 242

36. Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob (1994 TV Movie)

Crime, Documentary

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Directors: Bill Jersey, Gary Weimberg | Stars: Albert Anastasia, Billy Beattie, Angelo Bruno, Brendan Byrne

Votes: 50

37. The Last Westie (2010)

8 min | Short, Crime, Western

An ex-New York Westie Jack (50s) is pulled back into one last job to help his degenerate cousin Ray, forcing him to come to terms with a long buried secret.

Director: Matt Glasson | Stars: Jack Baxter, Cindy Lou Adkins, Ray Block, Christian Barber

38. Banged Up (2006)

40 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

Set to the backdrop of the days leading up to the March Madness College Basketball Tournament. Mike, (Tim Duquette) a low end gambler who loves to bet on the Madness, gets himself involved ... See full summary »

Director: Tim Duquette | Stars: Tim Duquette, Jim Shaffer, Kevin Hersh, Marlene O'Haire

Votes: 14

39. Wiseguys (2016)

5 min | Short, Crime, Thriller

A captured mobster awakens and faces justice from the mob boss he tried to double-cross.

Director: Zach Salazar | Stars: John Maciag, Lash Huffman, Mike Doguim, Chris Pera

40. Biography (1987– )
Episode: The Gambinos: The First Family of Crime (1997)

TV-14 | 88 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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Stars: Barbara Aiosa, Albert Anastasia, Al Aronne, A.J. Benza

Votes: 120

41. Network First (1994– )
Episode: The War Against the Mafia Part 1: The Founding Father (1994)

Documentary

How America's law enforcement agencies tackled the Mafia. Concentrates on the Gambino family from 1980 to 1993. Includes secret FBI recordings, interviews and allegations that the family were responsible for the deaths of 200 people.

Director: Tim Shawcross | Stars: Jack Klaff, John Gotti, Joseph Armone, Wilfred Johnson

Votes: 5

42. Heroes (2006–2010)
Episode: Chapter Two 'Lizards' (2007)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

At the behest of his new employers, Dr. Suresh travels to Haiti to treat a potential virus victim. The patient turns out to be a familiar face. Claire's secret may be out when a fellow ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Arkush | Stars: Jack Coleman, Greg Grunberg, James Kyson, Masi Oka

Votes: 1,636

43. America in Color (2017– )
Episode: Organized Crime (2018)

TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary, Biography, History

It's the 1920s. America is on the rise, and so is a dark underworld run by a new kind of criminal, one that is organized, sophisticated, and ruthless. For the next 40 years, legendary ... See full summary »

Stars: Eric Meyers, Tony Accardo, Max Beesley, Al Capone

Votes: 17

44. Panorama (1953– )
Episode: Boxing and the Mob (2021)

59 min | Documentary, News

Daniel Kinahan has been named in court as the head of one of Europe's biggest drug cartels. So how has he been allowed to be involved in setting up the World Heavyweight Championship fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua?

Directors: Stephen Dempster, Maurice May | Stars: Darragh MacIntyre, Bob Arum, Stephen Breen, Matt Christie

Votes: 18

45. Narco Wars (2020–2022)
Episode: The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia (2021)

Documentary, Crime, History

Drug dealing turns mobster Henry Hill into an infamous Mafia informant.

Stars: Rick Leahy, Ed Guevara, Karen Hill, Gina Hill

Votes: 9

46. Underworld Histories (2006– )
Episode: Boston (2008)

Crime, Drama

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Director: Chris Lent | Stars: Rory O'Shea, Christian Bako, Adam Bradley, Guy Castonguay

47. Being Erica (2009–2011)
Episode: Being Adam (2010)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Adam learns that Hastings, his old boss for who he did his enforcing, has just died. At the wake which Adam reluctantly attends, many of his old enforcer colleagues, including his own ... See full summary »

Director: Jeff Woolnough | Stars: Erin Karpluk, Adam Fergus, Reagan Pasternak, Kathleen Laskey

Votes: 73

48. True Crime Authors (2003– )
Episode: The Westies (2003)

Documentary

Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. Even among the Mob, ... See full summary »

Stars: T.J. English, Brian Bogulski, Jimmy Coonan, Roy DeMeo

49. Britain's Underworld (2010– )
Episode: Dublin Gangland (2011)

Documentary, Crime, History

Lifting the lid on Dublin's brutal history of organised gangs, including leader Larry Dunne who became Ireland's first millionaire drug kingpin.

Director: Anouk Curry | Stars: Gerry O'Carroll, Cathal Cryan, Christy Dunne, Tony Hickey

50. Inside (2007– )
Episode: Bullets over Boston: The Irish Mob (2008)

46 min | Documentary

The investigation of south Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, who's been on the run since 1995, is chronicled. He's the FBI's second most-wanted man, behind only Osama bin Laden.

Director: Chris Lent | Stars: Kevin Weeks, Howie Carr, Pat Nee, Howie Winter